Your mem. concerning the clean sheets is accurate as far as it goes.

You sent me afterwards as far as p.744. & it is the remaining sheets, together with the title page &c which I want, to make the set compleat, – otherwise all this is but waste paper.

The operation of nerving the horse

is very curious. The analogous experiment of dividing a nerve to cure the tic doloreux

– I believe has generally failed. We should know more about the nerves if some young Carlisle would make a voyage in a Whaler he would then find them upon a scale – which would enable him not only to ascertain their structure, but possibly to analyse their contents. – This reminds me of a friend

of my brother Tom’s, who when he was upon such a voyage, made some whale-cheese. How his Right Honour would have delighted in toasting it!

You seem not to understand that the lithographic prints are Westalls.

They have not been sent me, probably because Westall expects me in London. There however I can not possibly be before the month of May, – tho I am working now as hard as any government clerk who is making up accounts upon the motion of some such pest xx public-pest as M^r Hume.

I am however now in the full current of composition,

making great way with the stream. This evening, as soon as this scrawl is dispatched I shall conclude all matters antecedent to Henry 8^th,

& it will be a pleasure to write the chapters which ensue.

If Gifford thinks proper I shall set about a paper upon Spanish & Portugueze affairs,

a subject upon which there can be no difference of opinion among persons who are really acquainted with the situation & character of the two nations, & capable of forming a just judgement upon a plain case. A letter which I received lately from Blanco White

would have convinced me of this, had I been doubtful of it before. What you tell me of Gifford is all that I have heard of him. – We look now for the French blue

by every post, & thank you for it by anticipation. Remember me to Miss Page, & the Consumer of Snuff. We have had a week of delicious weather here which has just ended in gentle rain.